Intake for milk cans



Feb. 26, 1929. l

, J W. HATHAWAY INTAKE: FOR MILK cANs Filed March 9, 1927 llllt ,//f

m n W Patented Feb. 26, 1929.

uNITEo sTA'rs J WILLIS HATHAWAY, OF CECIL COUNTY, MARYLAND.

INTAKE FOR MILK GANS.

Application filed March 9, 1927. Serial No. 173,970.

rIhis invention relates to means tor cooling liquid while it is being poured into a can 0r other container, and it pertains particularly to a device tor use on cans and other containers into which inillr is poured from a pail from time to time during milking operations.

The device provided by the invention is arranged to be inserted into the mouth oit' a container' and thus constitute a cover therelior during the intervals oit milking before pouring into the container, and it is formed in such manner that mill; may be poured therethrough directly into a container without coming into Contact with any parts during its passage 'through the coolingchamber.

The device, moreover, so is formed that it may hold a pad or other strainer' removably in its portion below the cooling-chamber.

l/Vhen considered with the description herein, the characteristics of the invention are apparent from the accompanying drawing, forming part hereof, wherein an adaptation of the invention for use as an intake for milk-cans is disclosed, for purposes of illustration.

Although the disclosures herein exemplify what now is considered to be a preferable embodiment of the invention, it is to be understood that it is not the intention to be limited necessarily thereto in interpretation of the claim, as modifications and adaptations within the limits of the claim can be made without departing from the nature ot the invention.

Lilie reference-charactersrefer to corresponding parts in the views of the drawings, of which- Fig. 1 is an elevation;

Fig. 2 is a plan view;

Fig. 3 is a vert-ical section. n

The device is provided with a cover 4l having a depending ilange 5 arranged to lit around an annular flange 6 surrounding the mouth of the device. The lange 6 is connected with, or formed as a part of, an outwardly--laring top wall 7 That wall is supf ported considerably above a funnel-like base or lower portion by uprights 8, which are connected to the outer edge of the top wall and to the outer and upper edge of a downwardly-converging annular wall 9 of the base;

The baseer lower portion of the device also includes an annular wall 10 connected to and extending downwardly from the wall 9,

a downwardly-converging annular wall 11 connected to and depending from the wall l0, and an annular wall 12 connected to and extending downwardly from the wall 11.

he lowermost part l2 is out a size to have a fairly close lit into the mouth of a can or other container, and the wall ll, which flares outwardly therefrom, is seatable on, and conforms approximately to the contour of, the outwardly-ilaring mouth portion ordinarily present in millccans.

In the embodiment ot' the device as shown, the mouthllange 6 and thus the mouth itself) and the lowermost part l2 are of substantially the same diameter, and the other side walls are ot greater diameter. Consequently, as liquid is poured with ordinary lcare into the device, `it passes without spilling through the space between the top wall 7 and the upper wall 9 of the base. Duringpassage of the liquid through that space or cooling-chamber, which is open to the atmosphere, it has opportunity to lose some heat and thus reach the container below at a lower temperature. Thus, when, for example, milk just taken from an animal is poured through the device from a milking-pail, it reaches the can below at a temperature appreciably lower than that of the animal.

In order to prevent entrance of insects and deleterious matter into the device and the container with which it is associated, the cooling space or chamber is surrounded by a wall, of greater diameter than the mouth, of netted fabric 13, preferably oit wire or other suitable pervious material permitting access ot' the atmosphere, attached to the lower and upper edges, respectively, oit the parts 7 and 9; and the cover is kept over the mouth during the periods between pourings.

It desired, a pad or other suitable strainer 14 may be placed in the base portion of the device and rest on the converging wall 11, whence it may be removed easily for cleaning or replacement.k

The device can be made readily of thin sheet metal and ot wire netting with mesh sufiiciently small to exclude insects, taken from commercial stocks.

W'hat I claim as new is:

An intake for containers comprising an annular flange surrounding a mouth, a top outwardly tlaring from said flange', upright-s connected to and supporting said top, a iirst downwardly-converging annular wall upon which said uprights are mounted, an annular' Wall connected to and extending downwardly from Said converging Wall, a second downwardly-converging annular Wall, a lowermost annular Wall of substantially the same diameter as said flange, a strainer resting on one ol said downwardly-converglng Walls, and an atmospherieally-pervous wall of greater diameter than said mouth surrounding the space between said outwardly- 'llarng top and Said first. downwardly-cm1- 10 verging Wall. l

n Witness whereof, I a'x my signature.

J WrLLS rrATr-IAWAY. 

